Ari Linden is an associate professor of German Studies at the University of Kansas. His first book, Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2020. His current research project explores the intersections of Critical Theory and German Jewish literature.
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Writing on Public Books
As Society Evolves, So Too Does the University
Faculty and students can—and must—govern their own institutions, so that universities maintain their vital power.
Precarity and Struggle: Kafka, Roth, Kraus
In their writings, Kafka, Roth, and Kraus rejected the ideology of rootedness that was rapidly encroaching upon early 20th-century European consciousness.












